See, you are a musician. Start with humming the melody into a hand-held. Then pick it out on a keyboard. Record that. So that when you have fellow musicians around you with a particular talent in theory, they can help orchestrate and fill in chord progressions ect..

I like it. Ditto the Tom Waits comparison. I can hear the gravel in his voice now. Did you ever hear that Flaming Lips song we talked about? "Do you Realize. . ." I swear it's not as depressing as the lyrics sound.